Last week in my group with Off The Record, we looked at Andrew McMillan’s poem ‘TODAY’ from his great collection Physical (which you...

I’m one of the featured writers this month, on the excellent Visual Verse… You can read my curious poem here – and then submit your own...

A little ‘hooray for me’ post: I have been commended in the Ware Poets Open Competition 2016, for my poem The Thereminist Hails a Bus....

This is my day 30 (final one for the year) effort for National Poetry Writing Month. It’s a homophonic translation (according to sound,...

There was something I really wanted to write for a submission this week – so I duly have (and am treating it as my daily poem – though...

A quick and very-first-draft one today (which may remain so) – written in response to a prompt in Helena Nelson’s book How (not) To Get...

It appears I’m writing more that I might submit elsewhere this year – which makes for a less interesting blog, but a more hopeful...

I wrote a poem (OK?), but I’m keeping it offline for potential magazine/competition submissions (sorrynotsorry)… But just so you know,...